LINKBLOG for April 25, 2008

This edition comes to you with the help of two pre-releases (FF 3.0 Beta 5 and the alpha of the new delicious-firefox-extension). For the last one I had to create a Yahoo account, join some dev mailgroup concerning this add-on and more weirdness, so don't bother unless you really need del.icio.us on FF3 (Crash report after one evening: 1).

• Can something really be "miscellaneous"? - Mike Hall
  ' (...) will inclusion of a miscellaneous category just lead to users hunting around all the similarly titled sections until they finally check miscellaneous? '


• Merging Capability Modeling with Process Modeling - Nick Malik
  


• Name Those Patterns - Tony Rasa
  


• 47 ASP.NET MVC Resources to Rock Your Development - Craig Shoemaker
  If you're in ASP.NET development and have been traveling the world for the last 6 months without internet access...


• A great XPath Query Tools - Shahar Y
  


• Software Development as profession? Not Yet, Probably Never - Mark Levison
  Don't know yet if I agree, but at least an opinion differing from the mainstream that we must become a profession ASAP


• More Advice To A Young Developer... - Steve Harris
  Ten really strong tips that would help the motivated junior tremendously


• How To Maintain the Illusion of Easy Money - Jarkko Laine
  Just as 'there is no spoon' there is no easy money.... ' but by smart, consistent work it’s possible to get to really good results that look easy to the people looking from the outside '


• Integrating WCF Services - taufufah
  ' This article describes how WCF services can be loaded on-the-fly (without prior knowledge of the services’ contracts), setting its parameters and sequencing their invocation '


• Simple, and Clean .NET Design and Implementation Method - Part 1 - Yang Yu
  


• Dew Drop - April 25, 2008 - Alvin Ashcraft
  Alvin has a lot of interesting links today - or maybe I haven't looked hard enough :) -


• Faster - Why Constant Stress is Part of Our Future - Alex Iskold
  A rather gloomy look on the future I'd say


• We need more So What, Now What and What For? and less just What - Scott Hanselman
  ' I really enjoy books/blogs and writing that spend less time on the What and more time on the So What? and Now What? and What For? '


• The Problem with Software Registration - Jeff Atwood
  So. You have decided to support your favorite small software vendor. But then the trouble starts: how to pay them?
  ' Et Voilà! In only sixteen fun and easy steps, I have registered this software and voted with my wallet '


• When Do You Update A Mature Product - Scott Sehlhorst
  ' your return on a new release needs to exceed your hurdle rate. The return is a function of incremental revenue and incremental cost '


• OpenID Marches On - Mike Gunderloy
  OpenID ' the growing standard for universal login across web sites ' is getting more user friendly and easy to use


• Anatomy of a "Small" Software Design Change - Phil Haack
  ' File this one away for the next time your boss comes in and asks,
  Yeaaah, I’m going to need you to make that little change to the code. It’ll only take you a couple hours, right? '


• All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once they grow up - Friday Reflections
  And we know that only some of us succeed in this. And they are not considered 'successful' in the eyes of the world. Maybe that's an even more interesting thought to ponder on this Friday


• Are you going the way of the Dinosaur??? - Derik Whittaker
  ' What are you doing to keep your skills current? '


• Performance impact of the readonly keyword - Julien
  thanks Alvin